8.04 -> 8.10 removes language-pack-en-base / language-pack-fi-base during cleanup

[Timo Jyrinki]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I updated from 8.04 to 8.10 with update-manager -d, and after otherwise succesful update I was forced to use English. Not sure about the details, I fixed the problem by going to Language Selector, finding Finnish from the long list and installing support + selecting default language.

From /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log I can see that both English and Finnish support was actually removed during the clean-up stage ("Poistetaan" == "Removing":

Poistetaan pakettia ispell...
Poistetaan pakettia language-pack-en-base...
 * Reloading GNOME Display Manager configuration...
 * Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended.
   ...done.
Poistetaan pakettia language-pack-fi-base...
 * Reloading GNOME Display Manager configuration...
 * Changes will take effect when all current X sessions have ended.
   ...done.
Poistetaan pakettia iamerican...

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please attach the logs in /var/log/dist-ugprade/* to this report?

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Logs attached. Looking through those myself, I realized I had upgraded X and Mesa to non-8.04 versions. So please disregard this if it's clearly because of that. Otherwise there might be something to be found to improve robustness of the upgrade.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The removal happens because the dependencies in "language-support-fi" changed from recommending "language-pack-fi" to suggesting "language-pack-fi". This makes the apt thinks its a automatic installed package that is no longer needed.

This is a general problem with all langpacks.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Setting to medium because I believe it does not affect all upgrades.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.93.31

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update-manager (1:0.93.31) intrepid; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - remove goubuntu-desktop from metapackages, we do no
      longer build it (LP: #283712)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py:
    - never remove packages in the "KeepInstalled" section
    - keep the GUI alive when calculating the packages
      to cleanup
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py:
    - mark "language-pack-$lang" as manual installed to
      workaround changes in "language-support-$lang"
      (LP: #287551)
   * po/:
     - updated to the latest translations.launchpad.net
       version

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:02:03 +0200

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Hello

This bug should be also fixed in Ubuntu 8.04:I was upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 and my sytem wanted to remove 74 packages at the clean-up stage including language-pack-fi-base and fakeroot, postfix, open-office-voikko. (I'll includu the list from the update-manger's log).

The update-manager (v 1:0.93.32 in Ubuntu 8.10) still wants to remove these packages.